Training Log Archive: IanW

Helen's Nature Reserve loop - wanted to try out the new Walshes, was unsurprisingly far drier underfoot than last week but there were still a fair few muddy bits around, but there was no danger of slipping and sliding around at all :) Ran it a little harder than on the early morning headtorch runs, didn't feel too bad.

Route choice exercise on Wittenham - took wrong path at beginning of route to #1 but adapted route on the fly and still hit it pretty well. Others were fine, compass work was relatively good and aiming off well.

Second course of the evening, labelled 'hard'. Had problems with holding lines through vegetation/brashings on this one and so decided to re-run one leg in particular after completely screwing it up first time round. Other screw-ups were:
- heading towards the wrong distinctive tree, which didn't have a re-entrant just beyond it, in one of the open bits
- not seeing a reflector after being just the wrong side of a fallen conifer on a veg boundary, and then heading (for I don't know what reason) the opposite way along the boundary to that I should have given the direction I'd aimed off.

So two compass errors, and one act of considerable stupidity, on this one...